Okay, so this morning was a bit of a mess. I’m happy to say it was “Just one of those things”. I phoned reception about the safe, it was still firmly shut. What followed was basically two hours of small Turkish men appearing with various tools. They were all good as gold, none of them could speak any English, so I kept being put on a phone to reception for translation. After an hour I was on the phone, “Sorry, your safe is very hard to open, they have to drill it”. A man turned up with a bloody great battery drill and a selection of batteries. Give him credit, he drilled it in exactly the correct place and a few moments later the innerds were retrived. Which is a good job too, as this included the passports and the boarding passes. After another hour of faffing about the little man decided the entire thing was completly fucked and unbolted it and replaced it with an entirely new safe. By this time I’d already been visited by the man to restock the mini bar and the house keeping lady to make the bed. So half the day had gone already, I’d only done one black coffee and it was time to meet the holiday rep. Thankfully it was the same guy we saw last year, I’m glad we leave such a lasting impression. He said immeadiatley that we were not going on any excursions and that he wouldn’t waste any more of my time. I went back to the pool. I was very good, I didn’t touch any alcohol until midday, by this time it was midday, so I made up for it. We had lunch. It was pizza. I spent the afternoon reading Jeremy Clarkson, I must admit he certainly isn’t everyones cup of tea, but he had me laughing very much out loud. I had a few more beers and a few more coffees. I even had a snooze, under the sun, it was blissful. We were planning on calling it a day at five, but it was gone six by the time we ventured back to the hotel room. Okay, this time we do not have a jacuzzi overlooking the ocean, but it’s still a bloody nice room. We had a bath, and it’s a bath you could get an entire football team in, read some magazines. We then ventured back to the enourmous bed. Now, lets be fucking crude. Jamie has lost a lot of weight recently, so he straddled me and rode me like a pony, I then stuck him on all fours and ploughed him like a field. It was good. We then went down to dinner. I was quite good, had some duck and some chicken, I don’t see why I should stuff myself, it was all about quality, I enjoyed what I had. We skipped the show, I think tonight it was “The little mermaid”, instead we went to the lobby bar, played some games and had a few cocktails. It’s a beautiful night in Turkey, I’m for once at peace with the world, I have no desire to die, I’m quite content, this week at least, I’m happy to be alive.

Okay, first apologies for this entry being rather late. Also I remember now that the spell checker doesn’t work properly on the iPad, so you have the additional chure of decoding my ramblings.

So yesterday started off early, bloody early to be precise. About 3.30AM. So we got up bright and cheerful, dressed, then got in the car. At this point Jamie informed me that he’d forgotton his razor, it’s not like I’d kiss him anyway as he’s hardly a looker, but still, couldn’t handle that, so quick scramble to get razor and off we went. The sat-nav decided to send me round the longest way possible to get to the M32, the rest of the journey was uneventful. Why was I using a sat-nav? How well do your senses work at 4AM? Check-in was painless, if slightly long, the queue extended around the airport about twice, it moved fairly quickly though. Not much to say about the flight, which I think is a good thing. After landing, thanks to all the drop offs it took about two hours to get to the hotel.

They remembered us from last year, well at least their computer did, with a fully preprinted check-in card. Welcome cocktails were served. Driven to the room. Okay, it’s not as palacial as last years, we don’t have a jacuzzi overlooking the ocean, but I do have a sea view suite on the top floor, with a bath I could drown half of Bazil in. And I love the shower, I could spend all evening in there, okay, I spent most of it. I put items in the safe, the safe then jammed, that was the last we were going to see of its contents in a while. Man came couldn’t open it. We went to dinner, I had sea bass, with chicken, with sea bass, followed by some chicken, and some rice. We then went to the pool bar and listened to some band who were performing to an audience of about six. They were pretty good actually. I drank lots of beer.

We returned to the room just before mid-night, the safe still being firmly locked. We drifted off to sleep very quickly, it’s quite nice not breathing in dog hair.

Tomorrow is now actually today, the afternoon is almost upon us, but to find out about that tune into tomorrow, or may be that is today.

So woke up fairly early. Let the dogs out. Then procrastinated a lot before breakfast. I then read the paper. Phoned mother, didn’t want to kill her afterwards, so that’s a plus. Got up. Hung up the washing. Then descaled the coffee machine and the water boiler. Finally had lunch then walked Sasha. Packed the dogs into the car and drove to the kennels. Dogs very eager to get in, went straight in the hut. I was then asked when I’d booked them in. It turns out that they weren’t in the book. It was fine providing I could pick them up Friday, after that he was full. I then got very stressed and had a bit of an existential crises. He had them in his book, but for three days at the end of September. Eventually as I was a good customer the dogs stayed. I came back and looked through the emails. Found where I’d booked them in…for next week. Strange that he hadn’t got that week booked either. I’d normally confirm a few weeks before, but completely forgot.

Went for a run. Came back, weighed myself, I’d broken the ten stone barrier so mission accomplished. Had a shower, then packed. Published new video, which is August update, part two.

So that’s it then. All done. Off to Turkey tomorrow.

There will be no vlogging, no twenty six part YouTube series. But there will probably be some rather amusing FaceBook status updates, plus of course this wonderful blog. Which will no doubt be written heavily under the influence.

Think I slept alright, not quite sure. Okay so today I didn’t try amazingly hard at work, I had quite a few things to finish off and I did them all. Had a lunch break for once, walked the dog. Did a bit of washing and hung it up on the line for once. Went to Pump. That’s it now, just one run tomorrow. Went out this evening for a meal for Megan’s birthday. Got stuck in traffic on the M5, did a diversion, drove round half of Bristol. Then got back on the M5 and gave it another go. Got there in the end. I had spit roasted chicken and some vegetables. Drove home, less exciting. Hung up washing. That’s it then, packing tomorrow and dogs off to kennels.

I think I slept last night, must of, no weird dreams anyway. Was slightly disappointed that the scales were at 10:01.8. So that’s two days to go for the last pound and a bit. Cracked straight on with work, bit of a mixed day on that. Spent a lot of it building data and then more tracing bugs. So nothing new really written, just looking at rather a lot of dull stuff. Managed to finish editing the second part of the last video, that’s now upload, I’ll make it live tomorrow. Walked Sasha. Did everything a bit backwards this evening, went for a run, then had a shower. Then headed to the gym for a weights session with Laverne. Came back and ate. So that’s it now, Pump tomorrow and probably one more run on Saturday. Did all the shopping list. So one more work day tomorrow, then out in the evening.

So I went to bed at just gone midnight and got up at 7AM without anything in the way of sleep. Let the dogs out, fed them and then made breakfast. Dogs were confused. Finally loaded Dillon into the car and dropped him at daycare. Then carried on up to the M5 and off to Staverton. Made it in good time. James was late. We got going near enough straight away. Straight into circuits, I think I did about six. Then a load of short circuits into autorotations and flares. We were limited to exactly an hour as the other R22 was knackered and there was a queue to use this one. One more flight to do emergency procedures in parts of the circuit and then it’s solo time.

Drove back and started work about half eleven. Worked through till about half three then picked up Dillon. Then worked up until Pump, did that, picked up a parcel and then did a home check for a cat. Came back and did a couple more hours work. Finally sat down and ate salad. I think I have about two and a half pounds to lose now. Running and PT with Laverne tomorrow.

So after double the recommended dose of a sleeping pill I actually got off to sleep in about ten minutes. Didn’t wake up until about 8:30. It was wonderful. Got straight on with work. Got very pissed off with some very old GUI code. After several attempts I gave up on my first line of attack. After another couple of hours I got it mostly sorted, just need to add a load of code later on. I was going to go for a walk but then there was a sudden emergency that the on screen keyboard didn’t work. The reason being that it had never actually been written. So that was a fun few hours. Went out for a run. Came back and did another hour or so. Finally sat down and ate salad. Will pop some more pills then head to bed.

Oh, I’ve lost over six centimetres from around my gut, quite pleased with that. Still I’m trying to break the ten stone barrier by Sunday, almost there. Dillon at daycare tomorrow, slight diversion on the way home…going via Staverton aerodrome.

So yet another fun night going between beds, to mainly stay cool. Didn’t get a huge amount of sleep. Work was quite dull, mainly working through bugs and then looking at text rendering. A hell of a long day though all in all.

Walked Sasha. It was a lovely day today, really quite warm. Went to Body Combat, there was a whole seven of us there. Wasn’t overly in the mood but gave it a good shot. I’d already had chest pains earlier in the day, which were more stress related than anything else. Felt fine this evening when doing yet more work. Took a fun batch of herbal sleeping pills, doubt they will do anything. Ate salad. Tomorrow it’s more of the same and back to running, which oddly I’m quite looking forward to. My new shoes arrived.

I filmed a new video a week or so ago, I just sat on the couch and talked about lots of fun things. I’ve edited it down into two parts, the first part covers an update on my handling of depression and also the latest on my mothers QVC buying habits.

Yet another fun night of not much sleep. The guy who owned the local Indian introduced me to his brother, he showed me round the car showroom. He decided that I should have a Ford Puma, which is odd considering it was a Vauxhall garage. Then he introduced me to a Chinese woman who got the Insignia VXR up on her computer. I’d only decided on the colour when I woke up. Had breakfast, did a bit of reading. Got up and picked up dog poo. Had a couple of boiled eggs. Then we loaded the dogs in the car and went to the Hollyhedge fund day, dog show. We had a wonder round, I entered them both into best rescue. We got a fifth for the two of them. Also one a couple of bottles of wine in the raffle. Came back and went for a run. I fixed the kitchen scales, they were full of water. I took them apart and cleaned out the inside. Took them into the bedroom and Jamie said, ha, I thought you were going to dry it out with the hairdryer. I dried the insides with the hairdryer. Put it back together and it worked fine. Had a bath with a large orange squash. Then watched the Monza Grand Prix, which was actually quite good. Got another sleepless night ahead I’m sure.

So slept fairly okay as far as I can remember. Got up and had breakfast. We then ventured up to the Mall so Jamie could buy trousers for fat people. Came back and had a light lunch. Then went and had my hair coloured and cut. Read ‘Air law’ while it was all brewing, almost fell asleep. Picked up some poo bags and hooves. Came back and then went for a run. Did the full eight miles. Had a shower. Did the accounts. Had my two tins of Spaghetti Bolognese. Ordered yet more trunks and new shoes. Not impressed the last ones only lasted about three months. Now sat down watching the Grand Prix qualifier. Fell fairly tired, will go to bed straight after this is finished.